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Support Affiliates Credibility Blog Weekend Special
How to Increase
The Perception Of Value For Your
Products
Hello,
Marlon here with an exciting issue of Marlon’s Marketing Minute for you.
I’m gonna break down some specifics for you on how to figure out what fonts are in sales letters, give you examples of how I’m focusing on sales and increasing the perception of value for my own products.
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Now to the article of the day.
First of all, let’s say you go to a web page and see a font that totally blows
you away. You’re like, “WOW! That looks fantastic!” How do you find out
what font it is?
this is the COOLEST tool:
http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
All you do is upload a screen cap and it it’ll tell you what font it is. I
personally use Snagit to grab screen caps. But you can use the built in one
in Power Point or Skitch on a Mac or a billion others. If you need help on
that, search youtube!
OK, so you take a screen cap of just ONE WORD or one letter and then you
upload it.
Here are a few screen caps I’ve done:
Those are just a few examples. Once you browse, select the file and submit,
it’ll show you a match up to make sure it got the letters right:
Now, you can BUY the fonts through the site. I notice it NEVER gives
FREE font matches! So they make money SELLING fonts which means
oftentimes there IS a free font available. But I don’t know a free matching
services, so you have to DIG.
Keep in mind many or most all fonts CHARGE if you want to use them for
commercial purposes but you ONLY need the DESKTOP license, which
isn’t that expensive. You don’t need the web distribution unless you’re
streaming it with CSS stuff over the web, which I don’t even know HOW to
do.
What I do is make the headline in Power Point or Photoshop and save it as
an image. You can do that is about ANY program.
Here’s an example:
Simon Hodgkinson is a pro online marketer and designer. He makes better
use of fonts in his sales letters than about anyone I can think of off the top
of my head. Certainly better than I have done in the past. But nowadays
sales letters are a lot more GRAPHIC vs. text alone SO fonts become much
more important.
Here is a screen cap from one of his sales letters:
See how awesome that font looks?
All you do is grab a screen cap of one of the words (or even 1 letter) pop it
into Myfonts and you can find a matching PAID font.
To find FREE FONTS, go here: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/
Those fonts they say anyway are free for COMMERCIAL use. I bought a CD
from Best Buy with 6000 fonts on it that are free for commercial use. But
only a handful were really suitable for my use. Most are very artistic.
You always want to check the font license as far as commercial usage.
Which brings to this: You’ve gotta FOCUS on making sales with laser-like
precision.
Meaning you can just halfway do it and expect sales. You’ve gotta really put
your energy into it.
One thing I do is use Power Point but you can do the SAME THING in
Open Office Slides or Keynote on a Mac.
Just take a screen cap of a site or element of a site you like and drop it on a
slide. Then in one Power Point you have all your INSPIRATION and ideas!
Those are a few screen caps I took from Simon’s sites because he’s such an
awesome designer.
Now when you go to create your sales letter, you have a bunch of
inspiration.
I have also done this with WEBINARS. Just screen cap key slides. You
could even have an assistant or someone on Odesk do this for you cheap.
Which brings me to talking more about this GRAPHICAL component:
Things have gotten a lot more graphical in sales letters.
They just have.
The GOOD NEWS is that you might SHOCK yourself if you spend time
playing around in Power Point. You can do some pretty darned nice
graphics there.
Of course, Design Dashboard teaches you the basics of Photoshop Elements
preparing you for the full-blown deal. Adobe NOW has a thing that is $50 a
month and gives you cloud access to ALL their software, including
Photoshop, In Design and a bunch of other stuff.
The BAR has also RAISED on what it takes to make sales.
So it could be that if you aren’t making sales, you just aren’t creating
enough PERCEIVED VALUE.
One of the things I’m doing on my Dashboards is spelling out the content
row-by-row.
I’m just in the early stages of this.
Here’s a graphic I did in Power Point. We probably won’t USE it in a sales
letter but I can at least give a designer an idea. And I don’t know, maybe we
will use it:
I UPDATED Traffic Dashboard by the way. And yes, it’s in YOUR
Dashboard. When you log in, you’ll see especially the content of row 1 was
updated FROM focusing only on article marketing TO Content Marketing.
I changed content on 1 of the SEO icons related to backlinking, since that
changes all the time. It’s actually impossible to keep that up to date in that
what works in backlinking won’t work long!
Anyway, here’s an example of bullet points I’m working on to INCREASE
the perception of value:
Now let me ask you this:
After reading through those bullets, did that make you CURIOUS to know
more?
Now, those could be done better graphically, and a hotshot designer could
take those and do a lot more with them.
I also did some work on a little cascade to show all the dashboards:
My idea is to create the IDEA and then give it to a pro designer who can
really make it look better. But I figure I need to come up with IDEAS first.
Those are a FEW things I’m doing to really FOCUS in more on
INCREASING the presentation of VALUE in my own sales letters.
That is part of SALES and SELLING.
You can have the greatest product in the whole world. But if you don’t build
VALUE for it and create the PERCEPTION of value, you won’t make the
sales you want to make.
And that bar ALWAYS increases.
That bar is never just gonna stay there.
As long as you’re in business, you have to plan on increasing the acumen
with which you CREATE and PRESENT value.
Now you want to create great value. No question. But so many people get
HUNG UP on that point that they never get ‘er done.
How much value does a product create for others that is never finished and
therefore never sold?
NONE!
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Notice that I have INCREASED the value or quality of my videos. I’ll
continue to do so.
That is part of the process.
By the way, I had only had 1 cup of coffee when I shot that video and it was
like 6 a.m. I grabbed the WRONG SUIT!
I have a custom made suit I may wear on another day. But you know what?
I LIKE the way that turned out with the light gray background. That was
shot against a blue screen and in Sony Vegas I Chroma Keyed it out.
But since I shoot close to the backdrop, I get a shadow. So I can’t do the
“white mac look.” But everyone does that anyway and I prefer to be
different.
I also added some light music in the background. Don’t know if that was
distracting or not.
This past week what percent of your time did you spend focusing on SALES
of your product or products?
If you don’t have any products, then honestly. Go buy some PLR and
practice selling it.
Re-do the graphics. Pimp out the sales letter best as you can. Add a bonus
or two of your own. And SELL THE darned thing. Or at least start going
down that path of learning to sell.
By the way, you can now edit videos in Camtasia and get a pretty darned
good result.
When you plan out your week as I’ve taught you to do, plan a time DAILY
where you focus on SALES and things that SELL your products. Every day
like brushing your teeth.
Wanna know why it’s VITAL to focus on sales?
That’s where the MONEY comes from.
You can always buy PLR to sell. But really, once you learn how, you can
create your own product really fast.
Go into Power Point.
Type plain text on slides. You don’t need fancy colors to start.
Then on screen capture video read each point and talk about it!
If you record a product like that, you CAN sell private label rights to it. And
if you get good at the PITCH for that, you can sell them for a lot.
The MAGIC is not in the product. You can create great content quickly. All
you have to do is talk and record.
But the best, most unbelievable product in the world will NOT make sales
in this noisy world. There may be a few counter examples. But I can think of
tons, tons more where a great product died for lack of marketing.
You have to SELL the darned thing. That whole thing about products that
“sell themselves” is a lie.
YOU have get people to PERCEIVE the value you offer. And you do that by
focusing on it. And PRESENTING your value.
If you have trouble doing that, join Toastmasters. They’re around the globe.
Look them up. Cheap to join. And will teach you to articulate.
Best wishes,
Marlon Sanders
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost